Re: Linux 2.4 Status / TODO page (Updated as of 2.4.0-test10)

David C. Davies (davies@maniac.ultranet.com)
Sat, 06 Jan 2001 20:48:24 -0500


All,

As you can see, I get little time to attend to maintenance chores on the
de4x5 driver. If there are particular problems that you want sorted out
please let me know and I'll see what I can do.

Regards,

Dave

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Jeff Garzik wrote:

> Andi Kleen wrote:
>
>> de4x5 is stable, but tends to perform badly under load, mostly because
>> it doesn't use rx_copybreak and overflows standard socket buffers with its
>> always MTU sized skbuffs.
>
>
> One of the reasons that de4x5 isn't gone already is that I get reports
> that de4x5 performs better than the tulip driver for their card.
>
> Jeff
>
>

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